Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts
By: edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux
Series: History of science and medicine library -- v. 19; Medieval and early modern science -- v. 15; History of science and medicine library -- v. 19.; Medieval and early modern science -- v. 15.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789004201767
Subjects: Thought experiments; Congresses; History
Notes: "This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments / Sophie Roux; title: Remarks on the history of an ancient thought experiment / Katerina Ierodiakonou; title: Thought experiments in the De anima commentaries / Peter Lautner; title: Thought experiments in late medieval debates on atomism / Christophe Grellard; title: Thought experiments and indirect proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan / Simo Knuuttila and Taneli Kukkonen; title: Galileo's use of medieval thought experiments / Carla Rita Palmerino; title: On Kant's critique of thought experiments in early modern philosophy / Stelios Virvidakis; title: Philosophical thought experiments : in or out of the armchair? / Pascal Engel; title: On the very idea of a thought experiment / Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux; title: Thought experiments and mental simulations / John Zeimbekis.